It feels like this article about the unethical reddit experiment from Uni Zurich makes it somewhat trivial to re-identify the researchers who did the work 🙈

https://dnip.ch/2025/05/01/unautorisiertes-reddit-ki-cmv-experiment-verdaechtiges-institut-uzh/#Spurenfindung-zu-den-Instituten

I got another question for the #android crowd as a recent switch from iOS: are there any good (ideally FLOSS) apps that can do OCR either live from the camera stream or from existing photos?

iOS has this built in for both camera/gallery and iirc works offline. I'd love to be able to do the same.

I know Google Lens exists but I don't want to send all my OCRd text to Google. I also know of https://github.com/SubhamTyagi/android-ocr but it's really basic and seems to not work with white text on dark backgrounds.

@MBrandtner I tried the Google Photos app, I assume you mean the feature in the screenshots? If you don't allow internet connectivity to the Google app it errors like this

«These [VC] are not people who can be trusted with dangerous machinery such as billions of dollars. They were lucky as hell, and now they’re not.

The only future plan in this report is: maybe Trump will stop acting like a bizarre freak. They’ve met the guy and they think that’s a plan!

Maybe they can start a bubble in guillotines»

🔥 :guillotine:

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/03/in-2025-venture-capital-cant-pretend-everything-is-fine-any-more/

@mayloo89 también mira a https://delta.chat/en/, es genial y muy fácil! Lo prefiero a Matrix.

Pro tip: Do not upload the source code of your sooper sekrit Signal fork into the Media Library of your public WordPress web site

https://micahflee.com/heres-the-source-code-for-the-unofficial-signal-app-used-by-trump-officials/

#USPol

I got another question for the #android crowd as a recent switch from iOS: are there any good (ideally FLOSS) apps that can do OCR either live from the camera stream or from existing photos?

iOS has this built in for both camera/gallery and iirc works offline. I'd love to be able to do the same.

I know Google Lens exists but I don't want to send all my OCRd text to Google. I also know of https://github.com/SubhamTyagi/android-ocr but it's really basic and seems to not work with white text on dark backgrounds.

@scy fair, I've not tried the web version and only used the desktop app to set up a local sync to my Linux machine so far. My main use case was "try to mirror the iOS gallery app for basic features while doing online backups that aren't iCloud" and it does that well enough.

@scy I've been using ente for like a week now and it mirrors the feature set of the iOS "Photos" app good enough for me to make it work great for phone snaps, especially the facial recognition and map view are great (something most offline gallery apps I looked at for Android seemed to be missing even).

In #Hamburg, we currently have a "Volksbegehren" (petition for a referendum) for less annoying advertisements in the city, @hhwerbefrei

The proposal is to ban all ads that are larger than DIN A0, backlit, moving, or too many in one place!

We need 80000 signatures to have a citywide referendum. If you live in Hamburg and are older than 16, please support this!

Learn how: https://www.hamburg-werbefrei.de

We’ve filed the paperwork for statutory union recognition for Apple Grand Arcade and notified Apple. They didn’t want to negotiate, fine, we’ll do it with or without them.

It feels like this article about the unethical reddit experiment from Uni Zurich makes it somewhat trivial to re-identify the researchers who did the work 🙈

https://dnip.ch/2025/05/01/unautorisiertes-reddit-ki-cmv-experiment-verdaechtiges-institut-uzh/#Spurenfindung-zu-den-Instituten

@tschfflr @rwg @annajobin I really hope so!

@mattjhodgkinson @stokel@infosec.exchange @newscientist yeah, I feels it super problematic that the researchers haven't been named, it's hard to trust UZH to actually hold anyone responsible given this

And some colorful images from Talampaya National Park, the orange-ish rocks go so well with the greens and browns.

#argentina #photography #travel

“The AI jobs crisis is here, now - by Brian Merchant”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now

> The unemployment rate for recent college graduates is unusually high—and historically high in relation to the general unemployment rate

"AI" is killing entry-level jobs, which means that a few years down the line companies won't have senior labour to hire.

This also shows that talk about “AI literacy” and “AI skills” is a joke. You’re not gonna need any skills if employers aren’t employing in the first place

@vaurora that's where I am with my Spanish learning too, time to get a human teacher/tutor

I used to think that the most humiliating thing in tech was how many of the smartest people in the world believed themselves some sort of masters of the universe while spending their careers helping ad companies and computer landlords scrape a few extra fractions of a penny out of their transactions but then AI came along and now people are actually begging programs they can't understand to please, please do not do the wrong thing, so here we are I guess.

https://mastodon.social/@Ninji@wuffs.org/114434881766710172

I'm asserting now that Github has crossed the event horizon into Enterprise Software. Complex enough that any bug is your fault for not reading the right docs and flipping the right configuration flags. The experience will keep getting worse. People will use it because they have to not because they want to. It will become the MS Teams of scm-devops-hosting-stuff.